I’ve had the idea for 4 or 5 years to create a time line project– similar to Facebook’s time line by utilizing all the data I’ve accumulated about myself and my life over the years. It wouldn’t necessarily be a public article and not constructed off the back of Facebook’s selective data mining. It would effectively be an image of my life and existence to demonstrate to myself and potentially others how I’ve lived, what I’ve done, who I am.
I thought it was pretty coincidental that Microsoft are apparently now interested in developing an automated time line project.
The best solutions for creating a personalized timeline project I’ve found online are:
Tiki Toki Seems perfect for my needs and looks great but requires a subscription to embed a timeline on a web page. $7.50 a month isn’t too bad, but over the course of the rest of my life time, keeping a timeline up is going to set me back over $5,000! Whereas a one-time fee of say $50 would be much more in line for a piece of software like this. In fact I discovered there is a Desktop version of the software for $24.99. The only trouble is, it doesn’t allow times lines to be displayed or exported to the web. Frustrating to find a perfect solution with totally unreasonable and affordable costs.
Dipity Seemed Ok at first glance until I realized a subscription was required to input over 150 Events. And like with Tiki Toki, you then have to pay extra to remove ads.
The aim would be to include:
- Life Events: E.g: Certain birthdays with photos, Holiday with photo, video or links to image galleries
- Achievements: E.g: Passing my Driving test along with a photo of my first car
- Extracts and text from from Blog entries and Key documents
- Music Collection: Dates I’d discovered favorite songs or artists + Audio
- Day trips or other interesting things with links to photos galleries for these / or thumbnail galleries
- Friendship markers: First becoming friends with X, Y or Z with links to photos of them over the years
- My Art created
- Jobs Started with examples of work created at jobs / thoughts about the job
- Key Purchases: Including reviews, pics or links to product info
- Maybe things like ‘Wrote first CV’- and a link to it, plus link to my latest CV?
I also want to include data such as:
- The folders I have containing pics I like : Maybe link to Pinterest or Alternative hosted galleries?
- List of things I’m a fan of with links to relevant articles and media.
- Collection lists (games [Grouvee], movies [Flixster], anime with ratings) Perhaps using Collectorz (Although it’s Paid Desktop version or Online Subscription)
- Funny things I’ve found
- Links to related online content- social media and web sites (if timeline separate from my home page)
- This would probably be separate from the Timeline but be part of an overall ‘My Life’ package.